'Forms of connection'

“Women in Design: The Next Decade” (Diazo lithograph on paper), by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, in her show “Community, Activism and Design,’’ at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

— Courtesy Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

She says:

“From the start, I saw that the direct expression of a plurality of voices within each community could carry the immediacy of conversations, and that content and site combine to inform my choice of materials and processes. Over time open-ended forms, processes and materials offered me different ways to extend to others an invitation to participate in the meaning of each work. Through listening I have been able to reflect local populations and translate that connection first in ephemera and then in site specific, permanent installations integrated into specific places here in the states and abroad. The vivid forms of connection to people and place has become recognizable as my work…’’